Hi,
You need to return false so the anchor tag does not behave in its
normal way (ie, take you to the link specified).
So this should work:
$("a").click(function(event){
alert("Thanks for visiting!");
return false;
});
On Apr 2, 9:47 pm, "Mohd.Tareq" <tareq.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:52 AM, yrstruly <anthony.apol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hallo
>
> > Im new to jQuery. I have donwloaded the jquery-1.3.2min file and i
> > have copied that introduction code from the website and saved it in
> > the same directory as the jquery file. When i run the script it seems
> > to be working and when i click on the link it goes to the website, but
> > isnt this script suppose to show an alert message first, before it
> > goes to the website?
>
> > Please what am i doing wrong? Have a saved it correctly or is the file
> > i donwloaded not valid? Please help. The code follows:
>
> > <!DOCTYPE html>
> > <html lang="en">
> > <head>
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> > <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > $(document).ready(function(){
> > $("a").click(function(event){
> > alert("Thanks for visiting!");
> > });
> > });
>
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <a href="http://jquery.com/";>jQuery</a>
> > </body>
> > </html>
>
> =================== ===================Go for this script you can see now ur
> click function will execute first & then it will go for link
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html lang="en">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("a").click(function(event){
> window.href="http://jquery.com/";; <http://jquery.com/>
> alert("Thanks for visiting!");
> return true;
> });
> });
>
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <a href="# <http://jquery.com/>">jQuery</a>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> cheers.
>
> Ragx
